eBay sues Amazon over alleged poaching of sellers

[nickopedia]

There has always been a rivalry between eBay & Amazon.

Now, it appears Amazon is being accused of "poaching" some sellers from EB.
https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-sues-...ng-of-sellers/


This is nothing new, it's been going on for years.
Maybe eBay just had enough and decided to do something about it?

[Play]

Nice share

When I opened the link I thought it was something to do with Amazon/eBay dropshipping. Wasn't expecting them to have gone the route of obtaining buyer email addresses in such a manner.

[nickopedia]

This is typical in lawsuitville of Silicon Valley.

The lawsuit comes two weeks after eBay sent a cease-and-desist letter to Amazon, saying it had uncovered evidence, going back years, of the alleged poaching effort.

It will be interesting to see how this complaint plays out and what "evidence" is presented, that's even if it makes it into a courtroom at all.

Usually, a suit is filed first, then the $1000 /hr lawyers from both sides start talking about it.... They talk and talk, then likely to come to some sort of "agreement" to make it all go away.

The case was filed in Santa Clara County, CA (eBay's home base) on October 17th.

PDF of the complaint here:
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-co...-COMPLAINT.pdf

[glacier922]

they poach the sellers then what? have Amazon ban them, and go through heeps of hurdles to come back on? i.e., requiring a tax id upon opening an account, photo id, invoices right from the get go? lol, no thx. always need ebay as a backup plan.

[JamesNorth101]

Makes for an interesting read

Sneaky tactics by Amazon there